Christmas
14 December 2025 - 4 January 2026
Join us this year, online or in person, for the wonderful Advent and Christmas season! Hear the classic Christmas stories you may or may not already known, told in a way that’s accessible for all.
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Step into the story of Christmas with us! Enjoy the beauty of traditional carols and experience a live nativity enactment that brings the birth of Jesus to life through song and drama.
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Come and enjoy a fun-filled, all-age celebration of this much-loved Christmas tradition! Together we’ll sing and make Christingles—symbols of hope and light in the world.
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Start your Christmas morning with joy and togetherness! Join us as we celebrate the birth of Jesus through lively singing, interactive games, and engaging Bible teaching.
This gathering was not recorded or streamed.
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As 2025 draws to a close, our Senior Pastor, Tim Chilvers, shares a reflection.
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We begin 2026 looking ahead, and exploring what it might look like to take steps forwards in our faith in Jesus in the year to come.
Group Study
Have you made any new years resolutions?
Read 1 Samuel 1:10–18 and 1 Samuel 2:1–10.
These two types of prayer - lament and rejoicing - often appear together in the Bible. Have you ever felt that you were between those prayers at any point in your life? Do you feel like that now?
Eli initially rebuked Hannah, then blessed her. Perhaps he was responding first from a human perspective, then remembered he was a priest. Have you ever had a similar experience?
Read Matthew 5:37.
Jesus seems to imply that God won’t be moved by us making a vow. Why do you think Hannah’s vow was successful?
In what ways do you think Hannah’s prayer of lament could be described as a prayer of hope?
In chapter 2, Hannah’s prayer shifts from personal pain to declaring who God is.
What does her prayer reveal about how she now sees God, power, and weakness?
Judy spoke about “getting up” or “standing up” as a refusal to give up.
What might “standing up” in faith look like in a difficult or seemingly impossible situation today?After Hannah prays, her circumstances have not yet changed—but she has.
What changes in her, and what might that teach us about prayer?
Take time to pray together.
Bring to God any “humanly impossible” situations represented in the group—for yourselves, others, the church, or the city—and ask for renewed trust, perseverance, and hope as you move forwards in faith.